Posted on 05/25/2007 1:53:29 PM PDT by zeugma
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| May 25 04:21 PM US/Eastern By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press Writer |
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| MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires. If the claims are accurate, Jamison Stone's trophy boar would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004. Hogzilla originally was thought to weigh 1,000 pounds and measure 12 feet in length. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 800 pounds and was 8 feet long. Regardless of the comparison, Jamison is reveling in the attention over his pig, which has a Web site put up by his father—http://www.monsterpig.com —that is generating Internet buzz. "It feels really good," Jamison, of Pickensville, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big." Jamison, who killed his first deer at age 5, was hunting with father Mike Stone and two guides in east Alabama on May 3 when he bagged Hogzilla II. He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50- caliber revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot. Through it all there was the fear that the animal would turn and charge them, as wild boars have a reputation of doing. "I was a little bit scared, a little bit excited," said Jamison, who just finished the sixth grade on the honor roll at Christian Heritage Academy, a small, private school. His father said that, just to be extra safe, he and the guides had high-powered rifles aimed and ready to fire in case the beast with 5- inch tusks decided to charge. With the pig finally dead in a creek bed on the 2,500-acre Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve in Delta, trees had to be cut down and a backhoe brought in to bring Jamison's prize out of the woods. It was hauled on a truck to the Clay County Farmers Exchange in Lineville, where Jeff Kinder said they used his scale, which was recently calibrated, to weigh the hog. Kinder, who didn't witness the weigh-in, said he was baffled to hear the reported weight of 1,051 pounds because his scale—an old, manual style with sliding weights—only measures to the nearest 10. "I didn't quite understand that," he said. Mike Stone said the scale balanced one notch past the 1,050-pound mark, and he thought it meant a weight of 1,051 pounds. "It probably weighed 1,060 pounds. We were just afraid to change it once the story was out," he said. The hog's head is now being mounted on an extra-large foam form by Jerry Cunningham of Jerry's Taxidermy in Oxford. Cunningham said the animal measured 54 inches around the head, 74 inches around the shoulders and 11 inches from the eyes to the end of its snout. "It's huge," he said. "It's just the biggest thing I've ever seen." Mike Stone is having sausage made from the rest of the animal. "We'll probably get 500 to 700 pounds," he said. Jamison, meanwhile, has been offered a small part in "The Legend of Hogzilla," a small-time horror flick based on the tale of the Georgia boar. The movie is holding casting calls with plans to begin filming in Georgia. Jamison is enjoying the newfound celebrity generated by the hog hunt, but he said he prefers hunting pheasants to monster pigs. "They are a little less dangerous." |
Yeah they do. My brother hunts them on the big island of Hawaii and 500+ #’s is pretty routine. A good hunting dog is essential to keeping yourself in one piece though. He’s never been able to persuade me to go with him. I’m not getting any faster with age, so it’s likely I never will. Up close, the things are not exactly a treat for the nose either, and the meat is really gamey on the bigger ones.
That’s no hog, that’s a Rino.
An 11 year old and .50 cal pistol somehow this fact makes the rest of the story suspicious.
I shot one last year and it’s like shooting a cannon. I can’t imagine this kid getting off multiple shots unless this hog was half dead to start.
The love child of Rosie O’Donnell and Michael Moore.
It looks like its one-half bear, one-half pig and one-half Algore.
ping
But that beast woulld STILL scare the dogcrap out of me!
I used to go walkin in the woods across from work while on break, till I saw evidence of wild hawgs. I aint walkin there no more without a firearm.
"Rosie's reaction: "You f%*kers shot my mom!!!"
HYSTERICAL!!!.....and probably true!
I shore hope that came out sounding like; newk-ya-ler.
No matter what the exact size. If you saw that thing in the woods you would be scared you know what. That thing is huge. And wild hogs will kill you easily.
An ex coworker ferments corn and puts out the soured corn, seems the hawgs cant resist it.
Who knew?... soured corn and a .308 makes for good jalepeno cheddar snausage
Skin it and make a body bag for Osama Bin Laden!
I will have to admit that Cracklin Bread is a new one on me. I had to look it up.
Cornbread with cracklins in it does sound “Different”.
The real reason we no longer see Rosie on the view...
No. I shot .44 mag at ages younger than that.
Besides, when you are shooting at something this big, recoil is irrelevant. Adrenaline is the best compensator!
Is this going to be One of those stupid Sci-Fi Ch made for TV movies?
I wonder how many dogs this hogs ribs can hold!
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/dogsinelk.html
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